Ha, I actually need to rewatch AOT. It's one of those shows that I was like "this is a 10/10" as I watched it, then "eh this is a 7/10" like a week after I finished, and eventually I was like "it's kind of average, isn't it?" after enough time passed. As the new seasons started getting made I just wasn't motivated to even try watching them, but it seems a consensus opinion online is that it's sincerely interesting, so I probably owe it a rewatch. It WAS pretty fun when I watched it like 7 years ago lol.
Boruto is rad tho, it's like a perfect sequel to Naruto imo, all the ways it's different from Naruto are what I like about it and I almost have a complex about people's hatred of it lol. It's surreal, when I started watching it I immediately had a bunch of reasons why I thought it was doing something cool and it was touching back on the parts of Naruto that I liked before Shippuden, but like, the most vocalized opinion of it online is so vitriolic that I can barely process how to respond. It suffices to say, the people calling for Boruto to be "more like Naruto" are in direct opposition to what I love about Boruto, as someone who was a biiiiig Naruto fan like 15 years ago and slipped between different levels of dismissive elitism between then and now, landing now at a place where I think Naruto is cool again. Boruto represents a mindset that reflects my own personal growth since being a Naruto fan and I think it's really cool for that! (I actually once wrote a review of it on MAL that went to great lengths to express why someone like me might like something like Boruto but I tragically hit ctrl+r instead of ctrl+t to open a new tab right after I finished, which just refreshed the page and deleted the whole review. I decided it must not have been meant to be, and am haunted by this experience to this very day)
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Boruto is rad tho, it's like a perfect sequel to Naruto imo, all the ways it's different from Naruto are what I like about it and I almost have a complex about people's hatred of it lol. It's surreal, when I started watching it I immediately had a bunch of reasons why I thought it was doing something cool and it was touching back on the parts of Naruto that I liked before Shippuden, but like, the most vocalized opinion of it online is so vitriolic that I can barely process how to respond. It suffices to say, the people calling for Boruto to be "more like Naruto" are in direct opposition to what I love about Boruto, as someone who was a biiiiig Naruto fan like 15 years ago and slipped between different levels of dismissive elitism between then and now, landing now at a place where I think Naruto is cool again. Boruto represents a mindset that reflects my own personal growth since being a Naruto fan and I think it's really cool for that! (I actually once wrote a review of it on MAL that went to great lengths to express why someone like me might like something like Boruto but I tragically hit ctrl+r instead of ctrl+t to open a new tab right after I finished, which just refreshed the page and deleted the whole review. I decided it must not have been meant to be, and am haunted by this experience to this very day)